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SCHOOL OF HISTORY, GENERAL LITERATURE AND
RHETORIC.
Prof. Holmes.
This School is divided into two distinct classes — one of History
and one of Literature and Rhetoric. To each, two Lectures in the
week are regularly devoted; but exercises in literary composition
are required from the members of the Literary Class. Each study
may be pursued separately.
Class of History.
In the Historical Class the successions, revolutions, and various
aspects of the principal nations of the world are considered in such a
manner as to afford a general and connected view of the progress of
political and social organizations. Institutions and laws are noted as
the manifestations of different phases of society; an attempt is made
to discover and elucidate the conditions of historical advancement,
and to refer the changes of nations and governments to the operation
of regular principles.
Text Books—Schmitz's Manual of Ancient History; Smith's History
of Greece; Gibbon, Abridged by Smith; Taylor's Manual of Modern
History.
For reference — Long's Ancient Atlas; Appleton's (College) Atlas,
or Chambers' Atlas; Blair's Chronology (Bohn's edition.)
Class of Literature and Rhetoric.
In the Class of Literature and Rhetoric, the English Language,
English Composition, Rhetoric, and the English Classics, with the
History of English Literature, are studied.
The origin, growth and philological peculiarities of the Language
are considered; the various influences, domestic and external, by
which it has been brought to its present condition are explained; the
general principles of Rhetoric and Criticism are taught; the lives of
the most eminent authors in the language are treated in their historical
order and connection; and the critical examination and
appreciation of their chief productions occupy much of the time of
the student. The class will also be required to practise Literary
Composition.
Text Books—Angus's Hand Book of the English Tongue; Jamieson's
Literature, Ed. Smith and Tuckerman; Student's Specimens of English
Literature, Ed. Shaw and Smith, London.
Shakespeare's Complete Works; Milton's Poetical Works.
For instruction in Oratory or spoken composition, those portions
of Dr. Broadus's Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons,
which are appropriate to secular purposes, are specially commended.
Political Economy.
In the Class of Political Economy, temporarily connected with this
School, the Text-Books, heretofore and still used, are Say's Political
Economy, and Mill's (J. S.) Political Economy. Two lectures a week
are given.
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